You don't have to educate them. You don't have to take out their garbage. But you've got to have that magnet to draw them here.
A developer who lured Bass Pro Shops to East Ridge is calling on the city and Hamilton County officials to ramp up Camp Jordan and turn it into a regional center for sports tourism.
“It’s East Ridge’s cow bell,” said Matt Wood of Wolftever Development about Camp Jordan. “That’s what we need to invest in.”
Wood said that volleyball, basketball, and track and field are some sports in which Camp Jordan could focus in addition to the baseball, soccer and lacrosse fields already existing at the 200-acre site that sits adjacent to his development at Exit One of Interstate 75.
He told the East Ridge Council of the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce that the existing fields should receive artificial turf to prevent rain-outs of sporting events.